Two men were arrested and charged with felony attempted theft by deception on Feb. 10, for trying to collect $800 for rent and a $2,000 security deposit on a vacant house in Oak Park they did not own or manage, according to Oak Park police.

Before Christmas break at Oak Park and River Forest High School, 59 students reported their phones, iPads or calculators lost or stolen, but only five of those incidents were reported to Oak Park police. And police reported only two thefts in crime summaries given to the newspaper.

When a River Forest officer tried to make a traffic stop in the River Forest Town Center parking lot, the afternoon of Feb. 7, the driver refused to roll down her window to speak with him, so he called a supervisor. The driver then reportedly yelled at the officer to move lest she hit him with her car.

Oak Park Police Chief Rick Tanksley praised two female victims who fought back against an attacker, Friday -- even though the offender claimed he was carrying a gun. Police said quick thinking by the two Oak Park women led to the man's arrest.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office determined Sunday afternoon that the death of Oak Park school leader Peter Traczyk on Saturday was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Traczyk's body was discovered by a passerby at 11:50 a.m. Saturday in a field of the Forest Preserve on North Avenue near First Avenue, the medical examiner's office said. Traczyk, 48, was pronounced dead at the scene.

River Forest police arrested a Chicago man and charged him with defrauding at least nine businesses, including a River Forest bank, by accepting around $46,000 for snow plowing, painting and landscaping services he allegedly never provided.